Leading Chinese Dry Bulk Operator To Expand Its Fleet

Chinese dry bulk operator Ningbo Marine plans for fleet expansion. As a result it is to acquire a secondhand panamax bulker. Zhejiang Fuxing Shipping, a  subsidiary is to operate the bulker.According to recent...

Cargo Ship Sinks After Water Ingress

A general cargo ship sank in Binh Dinh province waters, South China sea, on  Dec 10, reports Maritime Bulletin.  What happened? General cargo ship HUY HOANG 18 sank in Binh Dinh province waters, central Vietnam, South...

The UN And AU Team Up To Fight The “Killer” Virus

As part of the information campaign on COVID-19, the commander of the Bangladeshi medical contingent at the Security Council-mandated UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic, encourages local contractors to wear protection masks,...

EU Unveils 2030 Zero-emission Plans

European Commission presents its transport initiatives for the coming four years as part of longer terms plans to decarbonise the sector. By 2030 zero-emission marine vessels will be market-ready with ports in a...

The World May Run Out of Oil Supplies in The Next 30 Years

The world is on track to run out of sufficient oil supplies to meet its needs through 2050, despite lower future demand due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the accelerating energy transition – unless...

MOL Inks Transport Deal for Wind-powered Coal Carrier

MOL and Tohoku Electric Power sign deal for transport using coal carrier equipped with hard sail wind power propulsion system (Wind Challenger), says a press release published on their website. Coal transport deal Japanese owner Mitsui...

China’s Long Journey To Decarbonize

Natural gas has yet to hit its peak by 2030 before it begins to decline, but still has a greater role in the energy mix than oil by 2050. Coal accounted for about...

CDC Recommends Ventilation Interventions To Prevent Spread Of COVID

CDC in its latest report, recommends a layered strategy to reduce exposures to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. This includes using multiple mitigation strategies with several layers of safeguards to reduce the spread...

Sanmar Launches New Ice-Breaking Tug

Sanmar Shipyards launched an ice-breaking tugboat it is building for Alfons Håkans. To be used for harbour towage and ice management.Sanmar built this azimuth stern drive (ASD) tug to Robert Allan’s TundRA 3200...

Two Laudable Aspects in Relation To ONE Apus Container Collapse

Sam Chambers, for Splash247, talks about the two commendable things about the calamity onboard the ONE Apus boxship. Container loss aboard boxship The ONE Apus boxship suffered the biggest loss of containers seen for seven years...